The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1887-05-26
The Perry County Court
House.
Built of Holmes County Stone.
THE CONSUL TO CORK on THE DER
RICK LIFTING PRESSURE.

SIel 10 hHOW, III o NOIN''Sii W
crumble, with no Surplus.
Some weeks ago we called at
tention 10 the fact that the Com
missioners of Perry co lnty, in
building a hundred thousand dol
lar Court house, did not use in
that monumental building. which
we hope will be like tempel of
Janus to the disturbing elements
of Perry, get the material ele=
ments of construction from
around and about them.
New Lexington is built on a
stone quarry. Under all her hills
are stone as enduring as the earth
and as beautiful as the culminat-
ed taste even of the Consul tc
Cork could desire.
From Perry county, rock has
gone to bniid the Court house in
GAINESVILLE. which rivals the splen-
dor of The Capitol at Washington,
and ranks in beauty of finish with
the palaces or castles of a world
from Athens down. The Court
house at Newark is made up
mostly from Perry county rock.
No more elegant and imposing
Court house stands In Ohio.
The point we make and insist
on is this: That Perry county has
stone and clay good enough for
her Court house, and men indus
trious and intelligent enough
within her borders to build a
Court. house without going to
Holmes county fer stone or Con
90 for laborers.
Will the Consul 10 Cork be
kind enough to focus this notion,
and get it in a deliberate pro-
ceeding? We are not assertinc /,
The Consul is lawyer.
Suppose the contractors took a
contra, t at price at which they
would lose money! Suppose a
stone quarry and a railroad com
pany would be kind enough TO
help spend the Surplus-Surplus
is good-and the Commissioners,
HE Consuls, and the Corkonians,
and Contractors, AMI Queen Vic
toria and The balance Of lis who
play the people Jim Ee-
tallic, the thing 10 be done with
you is 10 talk you.
From your communication il
is net easily to be learned wheth-
er or not the rock of Holmes
county made the Democratic ma
jorities, or the majorIties made
The rock We beg 10 assure you
we are acquaints d with the ma
joriiies. We are Il stockholder.
We don't know anything about
lhe stone quarry; we have stock
in the majorities, not in the
quarry.
AS to the complexion of our
native stone. The Consulate Eye.
if not blue elassed, will see that
it beauties as well as makes
substantial every reputable build
ing of his county. Tie Perry
county rock is underneath as a
foundation, is the step to every
hospitable door, eyebrows every
window in farm house, school and
church; goes abroad by car
loads 10 build Court-houses and
Cathedrals; bridges for the rush
ing railroads, as we'll as memori-
al stones for your resting dead.
Not good enough for your Court
house There was a Surplus !!
This is a suggestion.
The Sentinel was not fretted
because invitations were not Civ
en- 10 ou1 Bar. We only men
toned that as an act of seeming
discourtesy. But that is imma-
terial. Our Bar would not have
acted so.
The point is this, and since the
Consul TO Cork feebly recognizes
the issue, we put it plain as Perry
county rock: why do you 60 to
Holmes county for stone with
which 10 build your Court house,
when you have better stone
which can be had for much less
cost in your own countyF
The Sentinel is not mummified
and Will be glad 10 hear from
you.
II you have the sand to bore
down into The po!eogoic. you may
stlike a rich lead.
We hope the stone Will be
pretty, that the contractors VIII
make money, but We rise as we
close 10 remark. that ihe attempt
must not he made to fool the
public with surplus"
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